Assortative versus selective mating: is the distinction worthwhile?

doi:10.1080/19485565.1992.9988827

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Assortative versus selective mating: is the distinction worthwhile?

Social biology - 1 Jan 2000

Spencer H G

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The study examines the distinction between assortative and selective mating made by Lewontin, Kirk, and Crow in 1968 and finds it unproductive. Not only has the difference been ignored on many occasions even as it was invoked, but maintaining it obscures several useful properties of both nonrando...

Topics

Alleles
Animals
Fertility
Genetics, Population
Genotype
Heterozygote
Models, Genetic
Phenotype
Random Allocation
Selection, Genetic
Sexual Behavior, Animal

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